Annie D Stratton on Letters from an American

[Annie D Stratton]

I'm sorry you got mixed up in something that damaging. We just naturally want to believe people, and sometimes don't see the pattern until it has come to seem like something real. Some of the Trump folks are caught in the same trap: thinking that things would get better, that he would "grow into it", and becoming so vested that they clung to the repeated assurances. It will be hard for them once the props are gone. I hope we can find ways to welcome them so they can find solid ground again.